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quite to fit, and my tlmmb and third finger into the side openings 
(see sketch, fig. 3, where this instrument is figured to the same 
scale as the other bronzes, figs. 2 and 4), I could get a complete 
command of the instrument, for applying its sharp edges to the 
face, in the supposed act of shaving. It had in this way a 
steadiness and efficiency not only not possessed by the Irish 
specimens, but scarcely equalled by our own modern razors. I 
think it not impossible, therefore, this may have been the way in 
which it was used ; and if the solid and straight double-bladed 
bronze implements of the Irish Museum were razors ; this may 
probably have been one, and apparently even an improvement on 
them. _ . 
Fig. 4. 
Bronze Implement, found in the remains of a Lacustrine Habitation at Stein- 
berg, near Nidan, Switzerland. (Scale, one-half of size.) 
Swiss Bronze Implement. — In the valuable work of M. Frederic 
Troyon, on the " Lacustrine Habitations of Ancient and Modern 
Times," figures are given of various bronze relics found in Switzer- 
land ; and in plate x. fig. 8, there is a drawing of an implement of 
bronze, which corresponds in character to the one found near Currie, 
the pattern being but slightly different ; inasmuch as a straight 
and perforated handle, terminating also in an open ring, projects 
from the rounded side of a single crescent-shaped blade of bronze ; 
the points of the crescent, however, approach one another so 
closely, that its general resemblance to that found at Kinleith, 
